Zeroville by Steve Erickson
My rating: 4/5 cats
i want to say this is great, but it just didn’t move me enough to be great. and i love steve erickson, but it’s a much less…complicated plot than any i’ve read of his, which might be why i didn’t engage in it fully. also i’ve never been a fan of the “inactive damaged forrest gumpy life swirls around it” hero. (yet i love hamlet…) i don’t know—the sea came in at midnight is one of those books. i had an intense physical reaction to it. as it started coming together, there was a moment my heart started going faster and my skin started crawling. doesn’t happen often. magnetic fields, lost scrapbook, infinite jest…when they start unfolding (for me) i feel it, i get excited; they are perfect books. and this one was less than that. but i also have the flu, so who knows…
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